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But I have been with
him as close and watched him as attentively from that time till now as
probably a parent ever did a child. And candor compels me to say to you
that I think he has been growing worse every day. Yet the doctors (and
they are three) whilst I can see that their tone is not so positive as when
I came, still tell me there is no cause for alarm that there are no
alarming symptoms about his leg and that his increased debility is owing
to the profuse suppuration going on in his leg-yet they don't know and
he don't hardly believe that his leg has commenced knitting yet. And if
this be so the prospect looks to me very gloomy. Sunday last he had a
pretty good appetite to eat since then he has eaten but little. Some time
he appears cheerful and talkative at other, very much sunk and drowsy.
This my dear wife and children is a true statement of the situation our
Son, your husband and Brother-All I can say to you is he is in God's
hands-to Him let us all pray that he may be taken off his bed of pain"
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and restored to us again in health, and leave the issue with Him believing
that He will do all things right. God has blessed me with better health
and strength than I thought I could command. I had a very tedious and
tiresome journey getting here since then with little sleeping and eating I
have been almost constantly with Oliver yet I have kept up past all my
expectations. Penelope^f you and Toad could be here Oh what a relief it
would be to all of us- Oliver won't suffer himself to speak of wife, -f"
mother, he is afraid the already weakened strings of human nature
would break asunder. He suffers without complaining. He has gotten
about half through the "Pilgrims ""When I came I read to him in it
some every day. Now my dear Toad I know that the reading of this
letter will touch the tenderest cord in your delicate constitution and
recollecting the promise I made you before I left I hardly know what to
say to you. I don't want you ( any of you) to infer from this letter that I
have no hopes of my

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